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Today's social and ecological crises, which threaten the preservation of life on our planet, require our attention to understand the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism and to unmask answers or false solutions that obscure, perpetuate, and even worsen the current situation. Ecofeminists have critically examined several of the underlying assumptions of the capitalist-patriarchal conceptual framework such as the promotion of the destructive transformation of nature, hierarchical thinking, the encouragement of dualism, the enforcement of the logic of domination over life, even the hatred for life itself, and speciecism. Yet ecofeminism's attempts to call attention to and stop the destruction of the planet has not yet been able to identify or tackle the growing problem of geoengineering.Currently, geoengineering is threatening not only life on earth, but the earth and all her living systems. Exposing and critiquing the new technological ability to influence macro systems like the climate itself, ocean currents, temperatures, humidity, droughts, the atmosphere, and more, as well as the destruction that has already taken place, beginning with the effects of thousands of nuclear tests that have occurred worldwide, and, in addition, the transformation of the earths energies into weapons of total destruction -- mother earth as a weapon of war! -- are the major themes under consideration in this volume.The volume re-examines existing analyses from this new and much broader point of view in theory and reality, and points to the need for a new concept of nature and the earth as a living being, a cosmic being, so that it is the life of the earth herself that today must be protected.

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